The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-12
A NEW TYPE OF MAN.
The Western American Species and It's
Possible Future Development.
Charles D. Warner in Harper's.

Charles D. Warner in Hdrper's
Out somewhere on the Santa -fe route
where the desert of one day was like the
desert of the day before and the Pullman
car rolls and swings over the wide waste
beneath the blue sky day after day, under
Its black flag of smoke, in the early gray of
morning, when the men were waiting their
turns at the ablution bowls, a slip of boy,
perhaps aged z, stood balancing himself on
his little legs, glad in lnickerbockers, bid
ing his time, with all the nonchalance Of an
old campaigner. GLOW did you sleep, cap"
asked a well-meaping elderly gentleman:
'Well, thank you" was the dignitied
response, las | always do on a sleeping car"
Always does! Great horrors! Hardly out of
his swaddling clothes, and yet he always
sleeps well i'll sleeper! Was he born on the
wheels! was he Graded in a Pullman. He
has always been in motion, probably, he
was started at 80 miles an hour, no doubt,
this marvellous boy of a new era He was not
born in house at rest, but the locomotive
snatched him along with a shrek and roar
before his eyes were fairly open, and he was
rocked in section, and his first sensation
of life was that of moving rapidly over vast
arid spaces, through cattle ranges and along
canyons.
The effort of quick and easy locomotion
on character may have been noted before,
but it seems that here is the production OF a
new sort of man, the direct product of our
railway era. 1t is not simply that this boy
is mature, but he must be a different and
nobler sort of boy than one born, say, at
home or on n canal-boat, for wether he was
born on the rail or not, he belongs to the
railway system of civilization. Before ne
gets into trousers he is old in experience,
and he has discounted many of the novelties
that usually break gradually on the pilgrim
in this world. He belongs to the new ex'
panSive race that must live in motion, whose
proper home is the Pullman (which VIII
probably be improved in time into dust
less, sweet-smelling, we'll aired BEDROOM
and whose domestic life will be on the wing,
so TO speak. The interstate commerce Din
will pass him along without friction from
end to end of the Union, and perhaps
uniform divorce law will enable him 10
change his marital relations at any place
where he happens to dine.
This promising lad is only faint intlna-
ton Of what we are all comming to when
we fully acquire the freedom OF the con-
tinent, and come into that expansiyeness Oh
feeling and Of language which characteriles
the great West. It is a burst Of joyous ex-
uberance that comes from the sense OF an
illimitable horizon 1t shows itself IN inc
tender words of a local newspaper at BOWIE,
Ari., on the death of a beloved citizen.
death loves shining mark and she M
a dandy when she turned loose on JIM
And also in the closing words of New
Mexico obituary, which the Kansas Maya,
zine quotes; Her tried spirit was released
from the pain-racking body and soarea,
aloft to eternal glory at 4,30, Denver time.
We die, as it were, in motion, as we sleep,
and there is nowhere any boundary to our
expansion. Perhaps we shall never again
know any rest US we now understand tno
tern-rest being only change of motion
and we shall not be able TO sleep except on
the cars, and wether we die by Denver
time or by the nineticth meridian, we shall
only change our time. Blessed be this slip
of boy who is man before heisa an iniaill,
and teaches us what papid transit can 40
for our race! The only thing that eau
possibly hinder us in our progress VIII w
second childhood: we have abolished first